But it seems probable that the number of the Irish who fell was not less than seven thousand.

Soon a multitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage.

These beasts became so fierce, and acquired such a taste for human flesh, that it was long dangerous for men to travel this road otherwise than in companies.

[108] The beaten army had now lost all the appearance of an army, and resembled a rabble crowding home from a fair after a faction fight.

One great stream of fugitives ran towards Galway, another towards Limerick.
The roads to both cities were covered with weapons which had been flung away.